Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in that city. And they kept scoring and scoring and scoring again during a recordsetting nba allstar game. The leagues best racked up nearly 400 points in new orleans. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, february 28th. From abc news, this is world news now. Trying to fast forward . I dont know what day im livin. February 28th . No, its february 20th. You can calm down. It would be nice if payday were around the corner. We get started with the president explaining himself after comments made at a rally caused International Confusion for some. Thats right. The president referred to something that happened on friday in sweden. Many thought the president was talking about a terrorist incident. That was news to swedish officials who wondered what he was talking about. Heres abcs richard cantu. Reporter in one of his now familiar freewheeling speeches, President Trump included these remarks. You look at whats happening in germany.
This morning. A little breeze out there. Not as cold as yesterday morning. Temperatures in the upper 40s to lower 50s. My love their mild weather continues on. We do have what weather on the way. It looks like the next system will arrive early wednesday morning. Looks like a possibility for unsettled weather will continue on next week. Full details on that in 15 minutes. Thanks, erica. We start with breaking news this morning in San Francisco were Police Investigate a fatal stabbing this morning. It was around 8 30 last night. Officers arrived to find a man lying on the sidewalk. Witnesses tell us that paramedics performed cpr before transporting the victim where he died from his injuries. Police have not identified the victim and have no suspect information at this time. Police in walnut creek are continuing to investigate a hitandrun that left a pedestrian with lifethreatening injuries. The accident happened just before 7 00 last night at the intersection of walnut avenue and hutchin
Report. Foreign policy reporter about the situation in ukraine. We begin with megan hughes and the growing mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Good afternoon. Indeed. Ry more than 60 hours since flight 370 disappeared. Still no one seems to know where or how the plane went down. Malaysia did send ships to check for debris near hong kong after investigators worked to solve the mystery. Investigators expanded the search area today, pushing the hunt into the south china sea. So far no success finding evidence. Oil slicks investigators were looking at turned out to have come from a boat, not a crash. Here is what we do know, the jet we are talking about was in route to beijing from kuala. Umpur most of those on board were chinese travelers. There were three u. S. Citizens. Authorities say two men used stolen passports to board the plane. Authorities say they have identified one of the men. Also five passengers who checked into the flight but did not board
Paying attention to. The to talk about in ukraine. There are military vehicles on the border. The dow down more than 100 points. Breaking economic news. Heres michael with the latest on the manufacturing economy. Otherwise youd would be seeing a big rally. The isn number comes in with a big rise. The forecast had been to go to 52. 3 where we want to be. We are about a point ahead of where we wanted to be. Newport is rose significantly. 54. 5 from 54. 2. The production number to come in a little bit weak on the month. 48. 2 falls below the expansion number. The other number is unchanged. Manufacturing was not too bad. We do not get a clue as to where we are going with that. Higher thanoint what you expected any month when the weather was so bad it has to give people some hope that we do see a lot of weather impact on the economy. Thank you very much. The a point out, it would market moving piece of data. There is so much else going on. Other side ofthe the world. We need to get to the c
Commissioner Bernard Kerik who served time for tax fraud and lying to officials and the president just spoke about blagojevich moments ago. We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail. Thats a long time, and i watched his wife on television. I dont know him very well. Ive met him a couple of times. He was on for a short while on like a very nice person. , seemed dont know him but he served eight years in jail. He has a long time to go. Many people disagree with the sentence. Hes a democrat. Hes not a republican. Got a lot of folks to talk to. Shimon prokupecz is here, elie honig is here, our cnn legal analyst, kaitlyn, let me start with you, Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Reporter blagojevich is someone the president has been considering commuting his sentence for months now. He was fairly close to doing so in august but he was talked out of it after he got an earful from some illinois republicans who said you cannot commute this guys sentence.